Software Engineer II

Overview

Senior Software Engineer II (Full Stack) role on First American (India)'s engineering team, working closely with the Engineering Manager, Architect and Product Manager to own a domain or technical system long-term and deliver multi-quarter business impact.

What you'll do

• Lead larger, multi-quarter initiatives across the full SDLC from design through launch and rollout.
• Own a domain or technical system long-term and serve as a recognized domain expert.
• Make independent technical decisions under open-ended requirements, partnering with the Architect and Product Manager on roadmaps and trade-offs.
• Lead one to two important projects concurrently, dividing work for independent team execution and anticipating risks.
• Define and maintain project plans, milestones, acceptance criteria and measurable outcomes for larger initiatives.
• Define domain-level standards, patterns and operational practices; steward elimination of tech debt, toil and security issues.
• Lead high-quality code reviews that coach others and elevate review culture.
• Design architecture and infrastructure patterns the team follows; make spike and MVP decisions.
• Serve as a primary driver on production issues and post-mortems; define and monitor SLAs/SLOs where applicable.
• Drive cross-team coordination and stakeholder communication; simplify systems at the domain level.
• Mentor engineers across teams; contribute to hiring and partner on team culture and psychological safety.

What you'll need

• Graduate or postgraduate degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related discipline.
• Minimum of 5–8 years of hands-on software development experience, including technical leadership on production systems and sustained ownership of domain or multi-component initiatives.
• Microsoft technologies: C# (.NET Core, .NET Framework), TypeScript, NestJS and Node.js.
• Microservices and event-driven architecture using Apache Kafka or other event processing services.
• Modern UI frameworks: React.js or Angular.
• Cloud platforms (AWS preferred): EC2, S3, Lambda, EFS, ECS, EKS, API Gateway, SQS, IAM, VPC.
• Relational databases (MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL databases (DynamoDB, DocumentDB).
• Docker and Kubernetes.
• CI/CD tools: Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, YAML, PowerShell.
• Observability tools: Splunk, ELK Stack, DataDog.
• Testing strategies: Unit Testing, Behavior-Driven Development (BDD), Test-Driven Development (TDD).
• RESTful APIs; OpenAPI/Swagger, API design and API versioning.
• Git-based source-code management, branching strategies and code review leadership.
• Jira and Agile/Scrum practices.

Nice to have

• Knowledge of Python.
• Knowledge of data analytics tools such as Databricks.
• AWS or Azure developer certification.

Details

• Location: India (Remote).